Not surprisingly, he found that it was science. Study participants were more likely to believe in the credibility of paranormal investigators if the media presented them as scientific. Reports of paranormal investigators using devices such as an electromagnetic field (EMF) detector ramped up their points for sincerity.

However, if study participants read an expert debunking the investigators' credibility, their belief in the paranormal waned.

The study was recently published in the journal Science Communication.

You can call her Mrs. Timberlake

Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake have made it pretty clear they're serious. They married in a romantic Oct. 19 wedding in Italy with him serenading her as she walked down the aisle and her donning pink dress.

Now, Biel is taking it a step further - by taking her hubby's name. She said she loves her new husband's last name, and her friends and family will know her as "Mrs. Timberlake." The star said she would still use her maiden name in her work.

Biel follows stars such as Julia Roberts, who is known in her inner circle as Mrs. Danny Moder, who retain their maiden monikers in the credits.

Missing work makes parents sick

As kids, a sick day from school was a reason to cheer, but it is anything but a celebration for working parents, according to one recent study.

The prospect of staying home with an ill child worries a third of moms and dads, says research from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

In a survey of 310 parents, half said they had missed work at least once in the past year to care for a sick child. Twenty-five percent had lost a day of work three or more times.

Many child care centers do not allow sick children to attend. However, more than 30 percent of parents in the survey said they don't have enough paid days off to cover their children's sick days.

"The results of this poll clearly indicate that illnesses that lead to exclusions from child care are a substantial problem for working parents," said Dr. Andrew Hashikawa, a clinical lecturer in pediatric emergency medicine at the hospital.